Baby, Your Touch Gives Me Melanoma. Oh, Wait. That’s Just a Tattoo

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Earlier we explored messages that only appear in photographs. But hey, how about touch-sensitive tattoos or jewelry that interacts with your body?

All part and parcel of Philips’ strange and suggestive Design Probes subsite, which experiments with new ways of wedding life to technology.

Though I agree with Thought Gadget when he argues this video doesn’t really emphasize the many possibilities of touch-sensitive tats. Naked teens on a fondle-spree? There’s a tired idea.

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